Month: April 2013

After i got my Surface Pro, I’ve more often than before found myself needing to change between power schemes. On my laptop, I’ll usually set it to “Max performance” and just leave it there, but on the Surface it’s necessary to conserve power a bit more.

I’ve thought about making a live tile to do this, so I wrote a PowerShell script that will create one live tile for each configured powerscheme on the machine and pins it to the start screen. The code is based on a codesample for creating shutdown tiles, and this ScriptingGuy post. The script needs to be run as Administrator. Enjoy!